Some doubts

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On 19 Feb 2001, Vidura Priya wrote:

 

can someone give me the answers for it with

 

> 3)I have read abt the role of Lord Shiva, Lord Ganesha etc in Brahma

> Samhitha, Srimad Bhagavatham etc.Can someone give me the sanskrit slokas in

> which it is clearly stated (explicitly) that Lord Shiva and Lord Krishna are

> not different names for Supreme Personality of godhead.It would be more

> helpful if somebody can quote verses from Shiva Purana or skanda Purana.The

> reason for this is bcos Srimad bhagavatham is all abt Lord Krishna, it

> should naturally glorify Lord Krishna.Likewise the shiva purana will glorify

> lord shiva.This implies that shiva, krishna are all diferent names for the

> supreme lord who has been glorified in various forms(this is basically the

> contention of some advaitins).

 

That Lord Siva is an expansion of Lord Sankarsana is confirmed in the

following prose statement of (S.B. 5.17.16):

 

" In Ilavrta-varsa, Lord Siva is always encircled by ten billion maidservants

of goddess Durga, who minister to him. The quadruple expansion of the Supreme

Lord is composed of Vasudeva, Pradyumna, Aniruddha and Sankarsana. Sankarsana,

the fourth expansion, is certainly transcendental, but because His activities

of destruction in the material world are in the mode of ignorance, He is known

as tamasi, the Lord's form in the mode of ignorance. Lord Siva knows that

Sankarsana is the original cause of his own existence and thus he always

meditates upon Him in trance by chanting the following mantra."

 

This is confirmed in the following verse (Srimad Bhagavatam10.58.37)spoken by

King Nagnajit to Lord Krsna:

 

"O Lord who accepts the form of the various pastime-incarnations in order to

proect the principles of religion,

 

O Lord, the dust of whose lotus feet is reverentially placed by Laxmi, Brahma,

Siva, and all the demigods upon their heads,O Supreme Personality of Godhead,

what may I do to please You?"

 

In this connection we may note the following statement spoken by Brahma to

Lord Krsna(Srimad Bhagavatam10.14.19):

 

"O Lord Krsna , persons who are unaware of Your inconceivable energy cannot

understand that You alone expand Yourself as the creator Brahma , maintainer

Visnu , and annihilator Siva. Persons who are not in awareness of things as

they are contemplate that I , Brahma, am the creator , Visnu is the maintainer

, and Lord Siva is the annihilator . Actually You are alone everything :

creator ,maintainer and annihilator.

 

Brhat-sahasra-nama-stotra in the 96th Chapter of the Uttara-khanda of the

Padma Purana, Lord Siva says to Parvati:

 

"O beautiful goddess, a single utterance of the holy name of Rama is equal to

a thousand utterances of these other names of the Supreme Lord."

 

The exalted demigod Brahma is the original spiritual master of the devotees of

the Lord. This is confirmed in the following statement of Srimad Bhagavatam

(2.9.5):

 

"Lord Brahma is the first spiritual master."

 

Siva is still more exalted. This is described in the verse from Srimad

Bhagavatam (12.13.16).

 

Statements in the Saivite Puranas should not be accepted unless they are

corroborated by the Vaisnava Puranas. This is confirmed in the Saivite Puranas

(Skanda Purana) where Lord Siva says to Karttikeya:

 

" Statements in the Saivite Puranas should be accepted only if they are

confirmed in the Vaisnava Puranas."

 

Your humble servant,

Bhadra Govinda Das.